Here is the reply that I received.
Thank you for your comments and feedback regarding the recent incident at the Oklahoma State Capitol. While cross dressing or cross dressers might not be an offensive classification for you individually it was for the students and adult sponsors who attended our trip to the Capitol. None of the gender non-conforming youth, gender fluid nor transgender students or adult sponsors identified as cross dressers. They were furious and insulted to be called by what they considered an uninformed outdated term. I was there to stand up for them because they felt insulted. All of us did. Especially the suggestion that paiges and staff needed a safer place to pee. But you are definitely correct in being insulted by me suggesting that cross dressers are not an appropriate term or identity. I definitely misspoke and should have chosen a better way of expressing to House Speakers McCall's staff that the phrase was obviously meant to classify us as a danger. Instead I used the moment to make you and cross dressers feel like I thought there was something wrong with your identities and expressions. That was wrong and I should have chosen better words to defend our students and not left the suggestion that cross dressers were a shameful identity. I hope you can forgive me. Toby
